For some people, the fun of a magic show is trying to work out how on earth the performer did it. For others, it’s the simple joy of the unexplained.

Whichever you are, there’s plenty to enjoy in Dynamo’s Seeing is Believing tour, which will leave audience members marvelling or scratching their heads for many days to come.

Although the set has all the blinding lights, dramatic music and ominous shadows you might expect from a magic show played to 4,000 people, the man himself is anything but flashy.

Humble, self-deprecating and endearingly earnest, Dynamo makes it clear he’s just a nice, ordinary lad from Bradford - albeit one with an incredible way with a deck of cards.

The show even features a guest appearance from the magician’s Nana.

It might seem like an odd combination: all the flare and showmanship of stage magic coming from a geeky, boy-next-door character. But Dynamo (Steven Frayne, to his Nan) popularised this act with his TV show, and it works just as well on stage.

The performance is presented as a very personal one for the Magician Impossible. Comic strip panels projected onto the stage give him his own superhero-style origin story: the audience watch as a shy, bullied kid which an incredible imagination grows into the stunning performer in front of them.

Magician Dynamo in his show which he is taking to the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle (Image: Andrew Timms)

From anyone else, the story might seem saccharine or over-done, but there’s something so genuine about Dynamo that it’s impossible not to warm to him.

Personality is important, and Dynamo’s personality certainly shines on stage, but what about the magic?

The entire audience left the show under strict instructions not to spoil any of the tricks – though “trick” doesn’t quite seem like the right word for some of the mind-blowing feats on display here – so if you want to know exactly what happens, you’ll have to watch the show.

But safe to say, it didn’t disappoint.

There were sudden disappearances, levitation, and plenty of “how-on-earth-did-he-do-that” moments which left audience members gaping at each other in delighted confusion.

At a few points our seats at the back of the arena left us feeling a little far from the action, but the show’s fantastic sense of energy and fun soon had us engaged again.

As a huge fan of Dynamo’s TV show, it’s perhaps hardly surprising that I was enchanted by his stage performance. But the friend I brought with me had never seen so much as one of his tricks.

She left determined to catch up on every single one of his shows.

There are still a few tickets left for this show at the Metro Radio Arena and I highly recommend buying one - seeing, after all, is believing.